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Re: don't find "Altnet.announce"

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From: Damian
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:24
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Peter Hucker wrote:
>>> Yenc - no support.
>>> Multipart - no support.
>>> Security holes - loads.
>>> Signature - wrong place.
>>>
>>> Need I go on?
>>
>> Maybe you need to, OE can handle all those, Yenc just needs an
>> add-in,
>
> And add in by a third party to fix MS's shortcoming.

It's common with a lot of applications (Adobe Photoshop for example) to
install add-in products to enhance capabilities. It is _NOT_ a shortcoming.

>
>> but OE handles the rest.
>
> It does not handle multipart.  Having to select the parts manually is
> absurd.

OE handles it, you just admitted it. You don't like the _way_ it handles
multi-part. Boo Hoo!

>> (The sig has always been in the right place, could you
>> be confusing the default placement of the 'reply' in the old
>> versions of OE? That's easily fixed too.)
>
> The reply goes where the author chooses.  The sig was being placed at
> the top in OE, which screwed up future replyers snipping at the sig
> seperator.

OE has never put the sig at the top for me, did you screw something up?

>
>> If you need instructions on using OE with multi-part, or how to plug
>> the so-called security holes, ask. There's _millions_ of OE users
>> that can configure it. Like Damian said, most who complain about OE
>> just don't know how to set it up.
>
> I'll stick with newsreaders that don't need setting up.

And that is your choice. Just quit bad-mouthing everyone that doesn't agree
with you.

> They just work.

Hooray for that because you would obviously have trouble with something that
took thought.

> Do you buy cars which won't start, then fix them?

I have. But, I _can_ do that, it's not a problem for me like it is for you.
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From: "Damian" <nospam@rabid-dog.net>
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Subject: Re: don't find "Altnet.announce"
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:24:28 -0700
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